JO DOMAIN VII. COMPOSITE* 



more essential than the nature and power 

 of the substances combined, as appears 

 from an infinite number of analyses, it can- 

 not be admitted into these new divisions, 

 derived from accidential, and not from sub- 

 stantial, differences, as has been just men^ 

 tioned ; and the inferior terms being equally 

 objectionable, the adoption of a new appel- 

 lation becomes indispensable. The word 

 Nome, NOME has been adopted, as short and con- 

 venient, and as applied by the Greek 

 writers to the districts of Egypt, the first 

 country where chemistry and mineralogy 

 appear to have been studied. It is there- 

 fore not only of classical authority, but has 

 an affinity, so to speak, with the parent 

 country of the science, and thus presents 

 scientific recollections*. The author has 

 the greatest aversion to unnecessary ne- 

 ology, the chief use of language being to 

 be understood, and that the thoughts may 

 be accurately perceived, as flowers or fruits 



* The word in all its relations seems strictly Greek, and is pro- 

 bably only a translation of a Coptic word, especially as Strabo in- 

 forms us that the Nomes were divided into Toparchies. 



